The wise speak only of what they know. |
The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. |
The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them. |
Then another clear voice, as young and as ancient as Spring, like the song of a glad water flowing down into the night from a bright morning in the hills, came falling like silver to meet them. |
Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. |
Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?' |
There at last when the mallorn leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea. |
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. |
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. |
There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power. |
Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness. |
We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. |
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda. |
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? |
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. |